Today I completed the final entry of the Monument Records catalog -- sort of. I still need to post some audio samples, but that's a much more involved process than clacking away at a keyboard, so it will take a little while.This release collects various string quartet fragments and sketches from Beethoven's notebooks, and gives us a fascinating hint of what might have been. The centerpiece of the album is the "Brilliant" String Quartet, which gets it name not from the quality of the music itself, but as a dedication to noted Beethoven scholar Ira F. Brilliant. The quartet was realized by Giovanni Biamanti, and is decidedly more successful and closer to the spirit of Beethoven than most posthumous collaborations I've heard.
- Ralph
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